When there are too many people in Africa, deny them food and the means to grow food. You know they will die from starvation. When there are too many people in America, make them buy guns. You will know they will use them to kill eachother.
In 2020 30% more Americans where shot and killed than in the precious year. Still not as many as in the 80s and 90s but still over 20,000 people in the United States of America were shot to dead. Murdered. In 2020 alone.
On average 5 out of 100,000 people in America end up getting murdered. In The Netherlands it's one tenth of that: 1 in 200,000 Dutch people gets murdered.
How terrible those figures may seem, even the USA doesn't make it into the top 20 of countries were people are most likely to get murdered.
Is there an evolutionary advantage to killing other people? Do men kill more than women or are women simply less often caught? Libraries full of books have been written on the subject 'Why do we kill?'
There is no simple answer. But perhaps we could try and find out why Amercians are ten times as likely to kill eachother than the Dutch. Could the gun lobby have anything to do with it? As in 'more guns equals more shootings'? Hint: we don't have an active gun lobby in The Netherlands.
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